Shaw then scooped up two other weapons, a 12-gauge shotgun and a .22-caliber rifle — all three legally registered to him — drove from his home at 130 Berry St., to Torrington police headquarters and told officers what had happened. Three shots were fired into the wall of the home during the incident.

Police rushed to the scene, but by that time, Perez-Shaw had fled on foot, sparking a city-wide manhunt.

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“It just got out of control,” said Shaw Monday. “I feared for both of us.”

Police believed Perez-Shaw was enough of a threat that they ordered a lockdown of area schools while combing the city for more than three hours for the woman.

The manhunt ended at about 2:15 p.m., when Perez-Shaw was apprehended on Roosevelt Avenue, near the Stop and Shop grocery store.

Perez-Shaw was taken to Charlotte Hungerford Hospital for an evaluation and later charged with criminal possession of a firearm, unlawful discharge of a firearm, reckless endangerment, breach of peace, sixth-degree larceny and theft of a credit card. She is being held on a police-set bond of $50,000 until her arraignment Tuesday at Bantam Superior Court, which was closed Monday due to the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. A judge is expected to sign a protective order, barring Perez-Shaw from having any contact with her ex-husband at that court appearance.

In the weeks before the shooting, Perez-Shaw was served with a “notice of quit” — an initial step in an eviction process initiated by her ex-husband.

Shaw said the couple’s relationship soured and Perez-Shaw was in the process of packing up belongings and moving in with a friend. Shaw wouldn’t disclose why he asked his ex-wife to leave the home they shared for two years.

In reconstructing the events that led up to Friday’s shooting, police haven’t said whether the “scuffle” caused the gun to let off three rounds into the wall facing the street.

Torrington police spokesman Lt. Bruce Whiteley said Perez-Shaw wasn’t shooting in the direction of her ex-husband and “intentionally fired into a wall.” Police recovered three spent shell casings from the scene and entered them into evidence, Whiteley said.

Shaw declined to say exactly what transpired moments before the shooting, saying he was still shaken up and didn’t want to relive it. His concern moving forward is getting Perez-Shaw “help” for “personal issues,” which he wouldn’t elaborate on.

The Register Citizen also learned detectives are looking to interview Kimberly Morin, 39, who they suspect might have been at the residence when Perez-Shaw and her ex-husband began arguing.

Morin, who isn’t facing charges for Friday’s shooting, is linked to a woman, Sarah Mikuski, whom Perez-Shaw got into an altercation with in November. Morin and Mikuski, known drug users, stole Red Bulls from local Stop and Shops in September to help secure money for heroin, according to court records.

Perez-Shaw’s affiliation with Morin is unknown, and Whiteley said police are hoping she can “shed some more light” on what happened.

Some of Perez-Shaw’s neighbors have speculated she was buying or selling drugs after seeing a caravan of vehicles show up at the Berry Street home at all hours of the night.

Court records show Perez-Shaw — a convicted felon with multiple aliases, according to police — was arrested in November on drug charges after getting into an argument with another woman at a city apartment.

Standing outside the steps of his home, Shaw said he and his ex-wife were married for about a year before divorcing more than two decades ago.

The couple had rekindled a romantic relationship after bumping into each other in town a few years ago. Throughout, he had never known her to use drugs.

But over the last few days, Shaw said he has been a shut-in, embarrassed to come outside and face neighbors after reading speculation his ex-wife is an addict and might have been selling drugs out of the couple’s house.

One neighbor, Sandy Ledoux, 67 described Perez-Shaw as a “menace to this street” and said she witnessed the woman having drugs delivered to the house. Another neighbor, a 47-year-old man who has lived in the neighborhood for five years, said he noticed a steady stream of vehicles at the residence at all hours of the night.

“Obviously, they think this is a bad house,” Shaw said. He said he was unaware if his ex-wife brought drugs into their home since he worked late shifts in Newtown and couldn’t always keep tabs on his ex-wife.

Another woman, Sue Sebek, 55, who identified herself as an acquaintance of Perez-Shaw, hinted at Perez-Shaw’s drug use, saying, “She doesn’t look the same, so I know something bad is up with her.”

Investigators haven’t ruled out whether Perez-Shaw could have been running a “small-scale” drug operation out of the house.

Police deployed K-9 units, also used as drug-sniffing dogs, at the scene last week to try to pick up Perez-Shaw’s scent as police tracked the woman, but it’s unclear whether the dogs searched the residence for drugs.

Torrington police haven’t uncovered evidence suggesting Perez-Shaw was a drug dealer, although Whiteley said some users finance their addiction by selling. But Whiteley said it would be a “leap” to say police are zeroing in on the Berry Street home, owned by George Shaw, as a possible drug house.

“If they did,” use the dogs “they didn’t find anything, or we would have charged her,” he said.

According to online court records, Perez-Shaw is facing charges for possession of a controlled substance and second-degree breach of peace in a separate case after Torrington police were called on Nov. 13 to a South Street apartment when neighbors feared a verbal altercation between two women had turned physical.

When police arrived, the found Perez-Shaw and another woman, Mikuski, inside the apartment with two other people.

The women were “yelling and screaming” at each other over missing cash. Perez-Shaw told police she thought Mikuski stole her money.

Mikuski, who had a warrant out at the time for stealing Red Bulls from a local grocery story, initially told police her name was Chelsea Greiner.

Police swept the apartment and found two syringes on the kitchen table, glass pipes with burnt residue, silver spoons; two copper Brillo pads and a blue case with Xanax pills.

That case is pending in Bantam Superior Court, with Perez-Shaw scheduled to make an appearance Jan. 29.

Calling the episode “embarrassing,” Shaw was in the tenuous position of standing up for a woman he said he still loves while acknowledging she has serious “issues.”

Those issues, which Shaw wouldn’t disclose, were serious enough that Shaw had begun a process to have his ex-wife evicted from the home they shared for about two years.

Police said the woman was distressed and suicidal, forcing them to place her in protective custody and transport her to Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, where she received treatment for minor bruises and “psychological” issues, Whiteley said.

Shaw described his ex-wife as a “good person” and said it pained him to see her history, mental state and potential drug problems scrutinized.

“The picture you see,” Shaw said, referring to Perez-Shaw’s mugshot, “it’s just an image of somebody that — it’s just sad to see. It’s heartbreaking.”

Neighbors have painted an unflattering portrait of a woman with anger issues. A neighbor said Perez-Shaw was involved in some sort of confrontation with a group of children this past summer. Ledoux didn’t say whether that confrontation, like the one documented in a police report from November, turned physical.